Video Girl Ai, Volume 1: Preproduction — Masakazu Katsura

High-school student Yota Moteuchi is so unpopular that his classmates have given him the nickname Dateless. So it's no surprise when the love of his life, Moemi, is not interested in Yota but instead is in love with Yota's best friend, Takashi. Yota turns to a video rental shop for comfort, but little did he suspect that the shop was magical and that the cute girl on his rented tape would pop out of the television and try to fix his ruined love life!Out of the TV and Into the FireAt a mysterious video shop, Yota rents a tape starring the cute, young idol Ai Amano. When he plays the video on his broken VCR, Ai promises to cheer Yota up—then she emerges from the television and declares she will improve Yota's love life!